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How Do You Make Apprenticeships Successful?
Jan. 29, 2026

How Do You Make Apprenticeships Successful?

This episode explores what actually makes apprenticeships successful in hospitality — and why commitment from employers matters more than funding or frameworks. Timothy R Andrews and Joe McDonnell are joined by Neil Gander an...

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How Can You Use the Growth & Skills Levy Properly?
Jan. 16, 2026

How Can You Use the Growth & Skills Levy Properly?

This episode explores why hospitality continues to lose people, skills and funding — and what can actually be done about it. Timothy R Andrews is joined by Vicky Glover , Founder of Appetite 4 Apprenticeships , for a clear, p...

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What is a Hospitality Skills Passport?
Oct. 7, 2025

What is a Hospitality Skills Passport?

In this episode, we’re joined by Vince Kelly , manager of the Mayor’s Hospitality Skills Academy at Westminster Kingsway College, to talk about one of the biggest challenges facing the industry today — the skills gap. With 30...

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How Can Apprenticeships Fix Hospitality’s Recruitment Crisis?
July 5, 2023

How Can Apprenticeships Fix Hospitality’s Recruitment Crisis?

Today, CEO and founder of award-winning Hospitality and professional training and apprenticeship provider Umbrella Training, Adele Oxberry joins hosts Timothy R Andrews and Sarah Kettel to talk about her journey into Hospitality and how she is on a mission to fix the industry!In this wonderfully in…

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How To Recruit Chefs & Keep Them
May 31, 2023

How To Recruit Chefs & Keep Them

In this episode of Timothy put the Kettel on: Talking Hospitality, Executive Chef Sebastian Price shares his insights on how to recruit and retain top talent in the hospitality industry. Sebastian discusses the challenges of ...

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Why Hiring Older People Can Help Your Business
May 24, 2023

Why Hiring Older People Can Help Your Business

Wow! Season 3 and what a great start to what promises to be an incredible season.To kick things off, Jill Whittaker MD of Hit Training joins founder hosts Timothy R. Andrews and Sarah Kettel for this deeply insightful, thought-provoking and a whole lot of fun podcast.We discuss OBEs, the difference…

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Mentoring The Hospitality Industry
July 1, 2021

Mentoring The Hospitality Industry

Find out how our guest connected Hospitality professionals across the world to people of all levels in their careers to help mentor and support people in their careers. If you haven't heard about this, then perhaps now you sh...

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Midas: Giving Hospitality The Golden Touch
March 18, 2021

Midas: Giving Hospitality The Golden Touch

Put the kettle on, grab a cuppa and catch up with our latest inspirational hospitality podcast with special guests Joanne Taylor-Stagg FIH MI (The Athenaeum Hotel & Residences) & Dr Hilary Cooke FIH MI (Merlin Consultancy) as...

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Transforming Perceptions: The Power of the Hoteliers Charter
Feb. 25, 2021

Transforming Perceptions: The Power of the Hoteliers Charter

Happy Chinese New Year everybody!As we enter the year of the Ox, we talk to the highly inspirational and ground breaking Sally Beck, founder and board member of the Hoteliers' Charter and General Manager of the Royal Lancaster London hotel.In todays funny and stimulating episode we hear about Sally…

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